When you create "Logical Partitions" within the "Extended Partition", Linux (and GRUB) start naming them after the four reserved names.

I have a hard drive which has a Primary partition ( WinMe ) and Extended Partition with four Logical Drives. XP being on one of them. I have about 18G freespace and was wondering if I could create ...

I could use diskutil to shrink the partition and then create a new partition, and copy the iso image (via dd) into that partition, and then boot Linux from the internal HD and do the upgrade.

Pro & Cons of Creating Logical Volumes in Linux. Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999 ...

Edit and create partitions, copy files off, test your memory and more with this free Linux-based partitioning utility/boot disc. Note: This review addresses v6.0 of the software. As of January ...